How to underline a UILabel in swift?
You can do this using NSAttributedString
Example:
let underlineAttribute = [NSAttributedString.Key.underlineStyle: NSUnderlineStyle.thick.rawValue]
let underlineAttributedString = NSAttributedString(string: "StringWithUnderLine", attributes: underlineAttribute)
myLabel.attributedText = underlineAttributedString
EDIT
To have the same attributes for all texts of one UILabel, I suggest you to subclass UILabel and overriding text, like that:
Swift 5
Same as Swift 4.2 but: You should prefer the Swift initializer NSRange
over the old NSMakeRange
, you can shorten to .underlineStyle
and linebreaks improve readibility for long method calls.
class UnderlinedLabel: UILabel {
override var text: String? {
didSet {
guard let text = text else { return }
let textRange = NSRange(location: 0, length: text.count)
let attributedText = NSMutableAttributedString(string: text)
attributedText.addAttribute(.underlineStyle,
value: NSUnderlineStyle.single.rawValue,
range: textRange)
// Add other attributes if needed
self.attributedText = attributedText
}
}
}
Swift 4.2
class UnderlinedLabel: UILabel {
override var text: String? {
didSet {
guard let text = text else { return }
let textRange = NSMakeRange(0, text.count)
let attributedText = NSMutableAttributedString(string: text)
attributedText.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.underlineStyle , value: NSUnderlineStyle.single.rawValue, range: textRange)
// Add other attributes if needed
self.attributedText = attributedText
}
}
}
Swift 3.0
class UnderlinedLabel: UILabel {
override var text: String? {
didSet {
guard let text = text else { return }
let textRange = NSMakeRange(0, text.characters.count)
let attributedText = NSMutableAttributedString(string: text)
attributedText.addAttribute(NSUnderlineStyleAttributeName , value: NSUnderlineStyle.styleSingle.rawValue, range: textRange)
// Add other attributes if needed
self.attributedText = attributedText
}
}
}
And you put your text like this :
@IBOutlet weak var label: UnderlinedLabel!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
label.text = "StringWithUnderLine"
}
OLD:
Swift (2.0 to 2.3):
class UnderlinedLabel: UILabel {
override var text: String? {
didSet {
guard let text = text else { return }
let textRange = NSMakeRange(0, text.characters.count)
let attributedText = NSMutableAttributedString(string: text)
attributedText.addAttribute(NSUnderlineStyleAttributeName, value:NSUnderlineStyle.StyleSingle.rawValue, range: textRange)
// Add other attributes if needed
self.attributedText = attributedText
}
}
}
Swift 1.2:
class UnderlinedLabel: UILabel {
override var text: String! {
didSet {
let textRange = NSMakeRange(0, count(text))
let attributedText = NSMutableAttributedString(string: text)
attributedText.addAttribute(NSUnderlineStyleAttributeName, value:NSUnderlineStyle.StyleSingle.rawValue, range: textRange)
// Add other attributes if needed
self.attributedText = attributedText
}
}
}
Swift 5 & 4.2 one liner:
label.attributedText = NSAttributedString(string: "Text", attributes:
[.underlineStyle: NSUnderlineStyle.single.rawValue])
Swift 4 one liner:
label.attributedText = NSAttributedString(string: "Text", attributes:
[.underlineStyle: NSUnderlineStyle.styleSingle.rawValue])
Swift 3 one liner:
label.attributedText = NSAttributedString(string: "Text", attributes:
[NSUnderlineStyleAttributeName: NSUnderlineStyle.styleSingle.rawValue])